Audrey Watters

2011 has been a phenomenal year for me, both personally and professionally. For that, I am incredibly grateful. I began the year as a technology journalist, agitating for more and better and smarter coverage of education technology. And rather than just grouse and grumble, I finally took the steps necessary...

After churning out a rather epic series of year-end blog posts over on Hack Education, I'm fairly burnt out on 2011 retrospectives. But it's the last week of the year, and as such I've been spending the time accomplishing various tasks long outstanding on my To Do list. And like...

Ada Lovelace Day today, time to celebrate a woman in science, technology, engineering or mathematics who has inspired you. I've been stewing about who to write about for the past few days. I meet a lot of female engineers, scientists, technologists and mathematicians in my line of work -- but...

My first computer wasn't an Apple. It was a TI-99, and that was the machine on which I first learned BASIC. But I remember when my grandpa bought my brother and me an Apple IIe a few years later. I remember him -- an eighth grade drop-out himself -- marveling...

I felt somewhat late to the plussing party as I was at ISTE 2011 when Google+ was launched on Tuesday. I got an early invite (Thanks, Marshall), but didn't even log in until my flight back to the west coast late Wednesday night (Thanks, in-air WiFi). (Sidenote: how bizarre that...

Part of the magic of the iPad, promises Steve Jobs, is the ability for any age group with any tech experience to pick up the device and quickly understand how to use it. There's something about the touchscreen, something about the swipe that is far more intuitive, he argues, than...

My favorite (and most successful) story this week -- What Do Kids Say Is the Biggest Obstacle to Technology at School -- looked at the Speak Up 2010 survey, in which students did just that: had a chance to speak up about how technology is (and isn't) being used for...

Sadly, I could write a rant a day for the next few weeks about what's getting an axe in the federal budget. It seems as though, rather than addressing what are the core issues of what's wrong with revenue and expenditure in this country (e.g. corporations pay no taxes, defense...

Like most folks, I suffer under the weight of an inbox that never empties. I'm not sure that tech journalists get more emails than any other professions do, but we seem to be a bunch of whiny bitches about it, and as folks who email us really do want something...

I don't believe in the Garden of Eden. I don't believe in the Fall from Grace. I don't believe God made the world in seven days nor that He created Eve from one of Adam's ribs. I don't believe that eating from the Tree of Knowledge is a sin. I...